Cushion.



No. 721,936. PATENTED MAR. 8, 1903. v

P. BU`OB.

CUSHION.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 14, 1902. 1 0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK BUOB, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 21,936, dated March 3, 1903.

Application led July 14, 1902.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LFEEDERICK BUOB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a cushion of the kind usually employed for buggiescarriages, seats for railway-cars, and other similar uses, which is puffed and stuffed, forming an unequal surface on the top. The usual method of making the cavities which form the puffs of the top side of the cushion is to double the leather or material upon itself somewhat in the form of tucks and then stitching the sides of the tucked material together. A cushion made in this way requires an extra amount of material. Besides, the creases formed by doubling and stitching the material are deep and gather dust and hold it so that it is very difficult to get the dust out of these closed creases. My invention obviates both of these difficulties and effects a great saving of material, having lesser depressions between the puffs and of such shape and character that they may be readily brushed clean.

Another object of my invention is to materially cheapen the process of manufacturing cushions; also, to produce a heater and more ornamental article.

Another result of my invention is that various ornamental designs may be employed with equal facility, the configuration of which may be varied according to the taste of the designer.

The features of my invention are more fully set forth in the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in Which- Figure l is a plan view of the top face of the cushion. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the covering material for the cushion shaped ready for use. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of a finished cushion.

Cushion-covers may be made of leather or of imitation leather, as desired, or other suitable flexible material. A material having sufticient softness and pliability to make a suitable facing for a cushion has not sufficient rigidity to permanently retain a given pattern or configuration compressed thereon. For this reason cushions heretofore made with serial No. 115,488. :No man.)

raised designs have been formed of plaitsthat is, the material is doubled upon itself,

and the overlapping layers of the material are secured together by stitching, and the pockets or cavities formed by this plaiting process are filled by hand, each pocket having to be separately and compactly stued. This old process is very expensive, first, because the doubling of the material upon itself requires an excessive amount of material for a given area of cushion; second, the handwork of plaiting and stuffing is tedious and expensive, and, third, the overlapping edges and creases of the material resulting from the plaits constitute veritable dust-traps, particularly obnoxious for the reason that this class of cushions is most generally employed in the furnishing of road-vehicles.

My invention contemplates forming a cushion with raised patterns with an area of material substantially commensurate with the area of the surface to be covered by the cushion. My invention also contemplates the forming of the patterns without plaits `and without handwerk, thus reducing both the time and cost of producing the cushion.

In the drawings, A represents the facing material-say imitation leather. To the under side of this facing Ais adhesively secured a reinforcing flexible material-such, say, as muslin. For this reinforcing material anything possessing the characteristic that will stiffen when dry and retain more or less permanently a design compressed thereon will answer,cheapness of material constituting the desideratum. The facing A and its reinforcing B are moistened and placed between male and female dies having any desired pattern of configuration or design. They are left under compression until the lines of the design are permanently scored upon the facing and its reinforcing material, the said pattern being formed of concavities on the under surface and raised puffs on the outer surface of the facing, defined by the said scored lines imparted thereto by the dies. Of courseif these scored lines are intersecting, as shown in Fig. 1, they form raised rectangular pus of conventional design. Preferably the fastening devices consist of the button and staples C, which are inserted at the time of compression at suitable intervals along the depressions on IOO the outer surface of the facing formed by the said scored lines. After this step the embossed facing and its reinforcing-strip are placed in a skeleton form-that is, a frame having the shape of the cushion to be formed, with the staples upwardly projecting. The stufiing D, preferably eXcelsior or the like, is then placed in the form and crowded into the coucavities on the under surface of the facing formed by the said scored lines. The backing E, consisting of any suitable material, such as strawboard or paper, is then crowded down upon the upwardly-projecting end of the staple-points until they pierce the said backing. The staples are then suitably clamped upon the under side of the backing. This forms, as it were, a cushion-blanket, which can be laid upon any suitable springs Aor used in any desired man ner otherwise for upholstering purposes. Of course any other kind of fastening devices could be used. Also it is possible that some material might be discovered or some known material so treated that it could be permanently embossed without the reinforcing-strip herein described,and I do not desire to be limited thereto except where claimed.

It will be understood from the above description that the pattern formed on the facing renders the surface thereof irregular or broken on both sides, and this uneven surface is permanently retained in shape by the backing, which has a stiffening or hardening characteristic, without which the pattern would soon be effaced from the facing, owing to its elasticity.

Having described my invention, I claiml. A cushion formed of a facing consisting of a soft, pliable, flexible material, a reinforcing material having the stiifening characteristic adapted to retain a configuration thereon, the said reinforcing-strip being adhesively secured to the facing, the combined facing and reinforcing strip having a raised pattern thereon, defined by scored lines, a suitable stuffing for the raised portion, and a backing, substantially as speci lied.

2. A cushion-cover formed of a facing consisting of a fiexible material having a pattern of irregular surface formed thereon, a backing adhesively secured to the entire under surface of the facing, the said backing having a stitfeningcharacteristic adapted to retain the irregular surface of the facing, the said facing and backing forming a cover-blank with a raised pattern, adapted to be cut up, and applied to separate cushions for upholstering, substantially as described.

3. A cushion-cover formed of a facing consisting of a flexible material having a pattern of irregular surface formed thereon, a reinforcing material having a siening characteristic adapted to retain the said irregular surface, adhesively secured to the entire undersurfaee of said facing, and a support forming a suitable base for the said cover, substantially as described.

4c. A cushion-cover formed of a facing consisting of a flexible material having a pattern of irregular surface formed thereon, a reinforcing material having a stiffening characteristic, adhesively secured to the under side of the facing conforming to the irregular surface thereof, and adapted to retain the shape thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDERICK BUOB.

Vtnesses:

OLrvEP. B. KAISER, IDA J. LUCAS. 

